On 1 November 2011 12:48, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > The Foundation, and Wikimedia Deutschland, have set up a "participation > grants" initiative to fund people going places to do things in the Wikimedia > movement. We've already identified giving travel grants of this nature as > something we should do in 2012. We've been invited to take part and commit a > sum of money towards it, but aren't sure whether we should or not.
If we want to fund our own choices of global activities, or give grants for UK activities (or UK residents doing things overseas), then we should do so directly. If we want to fund global activities without deciding for ourselves, then we should just include the money in our donation to the WMF and let them get on with it. As I've mentioned in the discussion on internal-l, this new scheme seems very confused in terms of what the roles of chapters and the WMF are. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
